Editorial: Spy sex outside marriage: For James Bond only

6:51 PM,
Nov. 17, 2012

Written by

Hinda Mandell

Powerful men rarely disappoint those of us eager to wallow in others' misfortune now and then. Whenever there's a void of sex scandals to occupy the lulls in dinner conversation -- and indeed we've been having a dry spell of late - one of these big boys steps up to take the fall.

And we waste no time in tearing them apart, analyzing their actions to the extreme, offering our own two cents about whether his marriage can be repaired (see Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, David Vitter) or not (consider Mark Sanford, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Tiger Woods, James McGreevey).